Training in a Francophone milieu is offered in many programs at l’Hôpital Montfort.

Our generous awards and grants program provides opportunities to focus on research and educational initiatives as well as fellowships.

We offer unique training opportunities at our partner universities: l’Université de Lyon (France) and the Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China).

Partners and Affiliates

Teaching hospitals affiliated with the University of Ottawa include:

Bruyère Continuing Care

Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario

Hôpital Montfort

Royal Ottawa Health Care Group

The Ottawa Hospital

Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies

Student Facts

There are 447 current students. For the Fall 2014 session, 160 new students arrived. For the Winter 2015 session, 46 students admitted and 40 students admitted for Spring 2015.

The breakdown per graduate program is as follows:

Biochemistry: 97 students: 49 PhD and 48 MSc

Cellular and Molecular Medicine: 123 students: 64 PhD and 99 MSc

Epidemiology: 116 students: 31 PhD and 85 MSc

Microbiology and Immunology: 47 students : 26 PhD and 21 MSc

Neuroscience: 64 students: 30 PhD and 34 MSc

MSc students: 200

PhD students: 287

Postdoctoral fellows: 150

Admission Facts

Applicants for the 2015-2016 academic year to date: 422

Applicants for the 2014-2015 academic year: 467

Admitted in 2012-2013: 246

Faculty of Medicine Research Office

The Faculty of Medicine consistently ranks among the top three nationally over the last five years for research intensity.

The University ranks among the top 100 universities in the world for clinical medical research (88th, 2015, National Taiwan University Rankings).

The Faculty attracts approximately 60% of the external research funds received by the University ($130-$140M in the last 5 years)

Training the next generation of scientists contributes significantly to the development and evaluation of clinical interventions that address the health care needs of Canadians. In 2015-2016, the Faculty enrolled approximately 500 graduate students and postdoctoral trainees in six graduate programs in medicine: Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Epidemiology, Microbiology and Immunology, Neuroscience and MD/PhD.

Ottawa-Shanghai Joint School of Medicine

The Ottawa-Shanghai Joint School of Medicine is the world’s first Sino-Canadian joint medical school, an unprecedented feat for medical education In September 2015, the school will welcome its first cohort of 30 undergraduates

The Ottawa-Shanghai Joint School of Medicine will facilitate translational research and opportunities for Ottawa-based researchers in clinical and laboratory settings in Shanghai

Two joint funds at $1M each will support research in health and medical education between the Faculty of Medicine and the SJTUSM

The OSJSM will support the creation of a skills and simulation centre in China based on the University of Ottawa Skills and Simulation Centre, Canada’s largest centre of its kind and the second-largest in North America